Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

Returned to Triple Creek Nature Preserve to look for Peucetia viridans an Oxyopid

Here is the huge web of Argiope aurantia, Dorsal view of stabilimenta

Eyes of Argiope aurantia

Wide angle view of A. aurantia

Wide angle view

Revealing the huge web

Male and female Nephila clavipes

Female N. clavipes and golden silk

Gasteracantha crancriformis Dorsal view

Gasteracantha crancriformis posterio view

Male and female N. Clavipes

Golden silk

Basilica Mecynogea lemniscata web

Peucetia viridans on a daisy

Face of Peucetia viridans

Argiope aurantia and breakfast

Colorful kadydid

Dorsal view of A. aurantia and stabilimenta

Male P. viridans

Face of a male P. viridans

Stink bug

Gecko

Plant hopper

Female N. clavipes

Male injectors - N. clavipes

Orientation of male and female - a safe distance

Mecaphesa celer

Face of Mecaphesa celer

Colorful Kadydid

Male N. clavipes

Male and female N. clavipes

Male peucetia viridans

Face of a male Peucetia viridans

dorsal view

face of a new crab spider, Mecaphesa sp>

Crab spider M. sp.

Crab spider M. sp.

Face of my new crab spider Mecaphesa sp.

Plant hopper

A fascinating insect - my first encounter with Alaus oculatus Eyed Elater

C. Frank Starmer

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